and for his asceticism, his constant attendance at the Umayyad Mosque, and his abundant recitation and remembrance of Allah. A circle of disciples would sit with him, and—despite his simple life—he owned considerable wealth and property. He passed away on the first of Muḥarram at the age of eighty-five or eighty-six (1) and was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr. Earlier he had studied ḥadith and other sciences, but later abandoned that pursuit and devoted himself to worship until he died.

Al-Malik al-Muʾayyad, lord of Ḥamāh: ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl (2) ibn al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Taqī al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Taqī al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Shāhinshāh ibn Ayyūb. He excelled in many disciplines—jurisprudence, astronomy, medicine, and more—and authored several works, including a valuable, concise Chronicle (3) in two large volumes and Al-ʿUrūḍ wa-l-Aṭwāl wa-l-Kalām ʿalā l-Buladān (“Latitudes, Longitudes, and a Discourse on Cities”) in one large volume (4), as well as Naẓm al-Ḥāwī and other writings. He loved scholars, joined them in many fields, and was among the outstanding members of the Ayyubid house. He ruled Ḥamāh from the year twenty-one up to the present time; al-Malik al-Nāṣir honored and esteemed him. After his death the rulership passed to his son al-Afḍal ʿAlī (5). He died at dawn on Thursday, 28 Muḥarram, and was buried later that morning beside his parents outside Ḥamāh.

The judge, imam, scholar, and ḥadith expert (6) Tāj al-Dīn al-Saʿdī—Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Ghaffār (7) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī ibn ʿAwad ibn Sinān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Saʿdī, the Shafiʿī jurist—heard a vast number of ḥadith and compiled for himself a biographical dictionary in three volumes. He read extensively, wrote an elegant hand, and was highly skilled in calligraphy; it is said that he copied with his own hand nearly five hundred volumes. Although a Shafiʿī muftī, he once deputized for the Ḥanbalī judge, and he was appointed shaykh of ḥadith at the Ṣāḥibiyyah Madrasa. He died in Egypt on the first of Rabīʿ al-Awwal at the age of eighty-two—may Allah have mercy on him.

Shaykh Raḍī al-Dīn Ibrāhīm (8) ibn Sulaymān, the Ḥanafī logician, was originally from Ab Karm, a region of